Whispers of a Memory

Thursday, January 7, 2010

Camera Card Disaster

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I finally decided to get serious about scrapping my photos not on any digital devices this week. The ones taken way back when I had a 110 camera and when the photos printed they were only 3x5's. I thought I was a big shot when I upgraded to my Minolta 35mm. The only problem was that we were so poor sometimes that either we took the pictures and couldn't get them developed or we just couldn't afford film to begin with. So I have many time periods where I have no photos to document things in my children's lives. So now it has become of the utmost importance to capture those memories AND to get them in a scrapbook for them.

Tonight I had an uh-oh though with my camera cards. I inserted one and all the photos were GONE! I was devasted. The upside is that I do pull them off reguarly and did not loose a bunch but I did loose our New Years Eve photos and the rest of the Easy Bake Oven photo's taken a couple of nights ago. My friend Monica gave me a link to a program called recuva that did pull some photos off and my FB friends are giving me more suggestions to try to get them off.

So my P365 photo tonight are my camera cards and the memories that they capture for me.

::Balinda::

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Wednesday, January 6, 2010

Epiphany

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Today is Epiphany (6th day) and the official start of the Mardi Gras season. So this weekend we will be splurging on a Kings Cake. King Cakes are a tradition in all of Louisiana eventhough they are most associated with New Orleans. Each part of the cake has a symbolic meaning. The shape of the cake represents the circle the Three Kings took to evade King Herrod. The 3 colors represent the 3 Kings and the Baby that is always hidden is the Christ Child. Many more traditions follow this cake but that is the most important one to me. Here is where will be going to get mine and they do mail order. =) There is also some Mardi Gras tidbits there if ya wanna peek.

Very few people in Louisiana do NOT have Mardi Gras beads of some sort. Here are a few of mine. They really aren't good for anything after the celebrations except as visual reminder of what a grand time you had through the season.

::Balinda::

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Tuesday, January 5, 2010

Easy Bake Fun + Day 5 Photo

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Shaina got an Easy Bake Oven for Christmas. It was a very odd request on her list of "wants" as she has wanted nothing to do with learning to cook. I make her help me around the kitchen so that at least when she moves out she can boil water and eat some Ramen noodles...LOL. But really she is such a tomboy the oven on the list made me squeal (and yes, I really did squeal) in delight. The plan for tonight was to cook with it tonight...as in Mom/Daughter bonding time. Well Ricky comes home and yells, "Hey! I will bake something with you." He said that before he realized I promised baking tonight. Shaina thought it quite hilarious and refused to change plans for what night to bake. After reading instructions, installing the light bulb, lotsa flour in the kitchen and alot of giggles we ended up with pretzels. The funniest comment of the night came from my daughter..."Yanno, for easy bake, this ain't so easy!" I laughed till I cried.

Here is my Day 5 Photo. We cleaned the craft/computer room and found some watercolor paints I had bought awhile back for a church activity. Shaina didn't waste anytime putting them to good use.

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Monday, January 4, 2010

Project 365 Day 4

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Today I am babysitting. Not really my cup of tea. When my babies were small I was the neighborhood babysitter and when that gig was done, I swore I would not babysit again. So this is the rare occasion that should be documented. So here I sit on my laptop watching my niece and 2 nephews play and argue (not much structure in their home) and I play referee. Other than no consitency in their home..they really are good kids.

I really thought today I would end up posting a photo of them but decided on our lunch menu instead. The boys are only 4 and 3 and their sister is almost 6. Between the 3 of them they ate 5 peanut butter sandwiches, a portion of chips and the boys each had a piece of ham all washed down with Sunny Delight. I feel sorry for my brother when they hit puberty if they are eating like bottomless pits already.

Here is my Day 4 photo